I Feel Like I Am Cheating On My Fountain Pens

[ndw76]

My wife found this typewriter from the late seventies amongst her dad's junk collection. When I saw it I just had to have it. My wife though it was so old that it could only be a display piece, but with a little tinkering I was able to get it working.

Now I am kidding myself into thinking I am a writer and have started writing a book so that I have an excuse to play with it.

[JotterAddict62]

I should have took typing class in high school in the late 1970's who knew that keyboards were the wave of the future back then.

 

Nice typewriter.

[SujiCorp12345]

If you make a mistake while typing, is it possible to undo it?

[Icywolfe]

If you make a mistake while typing, is it possible to undo it?

Some you can, by having a eraser tape, some you can't.

 

From the picture it doesn't seem to have eraser tape.

[ndw76]

No, I just have to live with my many typos. The theory is that if I ever get anywhere near finishing my book my typing won't have any mistakes. Up until then I just live with typos.

[ndw76]

I just read online that if I set the colour selector to stencil, that is between red and black, and insert a piece of correction paper over the mistake I can erase the mistake. Now I just have to find where I can buy this correction paper. I hope it's cheap.

[Icywolfe]

I just read online that if I set the colour selector to stencil, that is between red and black, and insert a piece of correction paper over the mistake I can erase the mistake. Now I just have to find where I can buy this correction paper. I hope it's cheap.

I remember like when I was in elementary school/Middle school it was like 5 bucks. I'm sure the rarity of the typewriters made the price sky rocket.

 

You can also try doing this:

 

Put a light layer of white out and stamp a letter over it later.

 

So where you going to publish that book to?

Edited August 29, 2014 by Icywolfe

[ndw76]

I'll think about that when I have something that resembles a book and not just a jumbled pile of papers.

[inkypete]

I don't get it. Where is the screen? Does it pop up from the back?

[Icywolfe]

I'll think about that when I have something that resembles a book and not just a jumbled pile of papers.

You can have it a free book on like online sites like Wattpad.

 

 

I don't get it. Where is the screen? Does it pop up from the back?

You suddenly became younger that me. =P And I'm 18.

Edited August 29, 2014 by Icywolfe

[majorworks]

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ALl work and no play makes Jack a dull boy

Allwork adn no play makes Jack a dullboy

All work and no play mades jack a dull boy

All worl and no plya makes Jack a dull boy

all work and no play makes Jach a dull boy

[Wahl]

I remember some special erasers for typewriters, in the shape of a disc, and grey in color, with a small brush attached !

[inkstainedruth]

I remember some special erasers for typewriters, in the shape of a disc, and grey in color, with a small brush attached !

Yeah, my mom had some of those. I have no idea if you can even still get them. A bottle of white out is probably going to be the best bet (unless it's the type of cartridge typewriter that has the whiteout tape cartridges -- which also might not be available anymore).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Icywolfe]

Yeah, my mom had some of those. I have no idea if you can even still get them. A bottle of white out is probably going to be the best bet (unless it's the type of cartridge typewriter that has the whiteout tape cartridges -- which also might not be available anymore).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Ralphs still sells some. It was I think 18 or 16. It was in a corner of the store all dusty.

[penrivers]

Now I am kidding myself into thinking I am a writer and have started writing a book so that I have an excuse to play with it.

Nice. I have 14 mostly from 1930 to 1960, I do not like plastic typewriters, they should be metal, stable, not walking when you write in them. I like the new app from Tom Hanks but not the typos, they look like new ones I love typos worned out, tired in the edges like an old Underwood or Remington used by Sam Spade writing a brief report to the Continental or Marlowe to himself under the smoke of a Camel cigarret and a dark fedora. I hope somebody here send me a link about that kind for my computer if it is free download the better. Word incredibly doesn't have the lesser esthetically idea of what it means a worn out typo. When you finish your novel send it to me loaned, I have a creative block maybe since I was born je je.

Edited August 29, 2014 by penrivers

[ndw76]

That's the agreement I have with my wife. If I can write a novel and get it published she will buy me a 1938 Underwood Champion portable typewriter. She never specified where I had to publish it. So when I'm finished I'll probably send it to a free online publishing site. I won't get any money for it, but it may not be worth any money, but I will get a 1938 Underwood Champion.

[Icywolfe]

That's the agreement I have with my wife. If I can write a novel and get it published she will buy me a 1938 Underwood Champion portable typewriter. She never specified where I had to publish it. So when I'm finished I'll probably send it to a free online publishing site. I won't get any money for it, but it may not be worth any money, but I will get a 1938 Underwood Champion.

Wattpad is so easy retype it up and put it on your profile and click the publish button. Your story can only be viewed on their mobile app or online.

 

Lulu is easy too. Very similar to Wattpad but can later on switch to physical publishing.

Edited August 30, 2014 by Icywolfe

[Lou Erickson]

You might be looking for correction tabs, which are not expensive there, but listed for lots more elsewhere. They're sort of like white carbon paper. You backspace to the typo, slip the tab behind the platen, and type the letter again. The white stuff on the tab covers up the letter. You wind up with the letter typed on the tab.

 

There are also typewriter erasers, circular or like a wooden pencil, with a brush at the end. Never found those too useful, myself. They're more abrasive than most pencil erasers.

 

The suggestion of ordinary white out is not bad, but you have to have a fine hand with it not to white out too much, and you have to let it dry before you keep typing.

 

Practice will improve your typing so you make less errors. We've all gotten really sloppy on electronic keyboards.

[ndw76]

I found one.of the typing erasers and it just wears a hole in the paper. I think my best bet will be white out with a brush.

[Christi0469]

The modern correction tape applicators might be easier since there isn't a dry-time.